Show THE ABUSE OF FUEL writer takes americans to task for wastefulness the high prices of coal caused by the strike now ending have carried with them a salutary lesson it has reminded our people that they have been using fuel wastefully the nat ural resources of the united states are so great that something out of the usual order Is necessary to convey the lesson that there Is a limit to them for it Is not merely in the matter of wastefulness that fuel has been abused the sanitary argument is even stronger than that based on econ omy in america we indulge in hot rooms to a degree unknown in other parts of the world some of those who lecture us on the subject probably err on the other side the cold rooms of germany and france have their drawbacks and there is reason to believe that they are often insufficiently heated but that does not in any degree excuse the hot rooms to which americans are very commonly sub ejected it is not the degree of cold which Is so fatal to health as the sud den transition from heat to cold to quit a room at the temperature of a day in july and go into a zero tern pera ture is necessarily perilous yet this is a common incident of ameri can experience it has cost many a man his life and caused others trouble some attacks of illness louisville courier journal |